Given name · Russian
Геннадий
“noble”
Геннадий (Gennádij) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Russian.
RussianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Gennady.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Геннадий goes back to Ancient Greek γενναδας, meaning “noble.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Геннадий’s family of names
In Russian usage, Геннадий has a diminutive in Ге́на. In Russian usage, Геннадий has a conventional equivalent in the German form GENNADIY. In Russian usage, Геннадий has a conventional equivalent in the English form GENNADY.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Геннадий has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Геннадий comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 14
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Геннадий
- Gennady ZyuganovGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federationborn 1944
- Gennady Yanayevvice president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 19911937–2010
- Genndy TartakovskyRussian-American cinema and television animator, director and producerborn 1970
- Gennady GolovkinKazakhstani boxerborn 1982
- Gennady PadalkaRussian Air Force officer and an RSA cosmonautborn 1958
- Gennadiy AygiChuvash poet, writer, and translator (1934-2006)
- Gennadius ScholariusPatriarch of Constantinople1400–1473
- Gennady RozhdestvenskyRussian conductor and composer (1931-2018)
- Gennady StrekalovSoviet and Russian cosmonaut and Ashoka Chakra recipient (1940–2004)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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